Escora building
The Escora building is a neoclassical building at Rosenauer Strasse 27 in Coburg . The oldest part of the building was built in 1914 and was the seat of the former Escora corsetry factory. The building is listed as an architectural monument in the Bavarian list of monuments .
building
The approximately 70 meter long building complex consists of three sections. The square head building and the adjoining rectangular building section were built in 1914 by the Coburg master mason and architect Paul Schaarschmidt . In 1938 the factory building was extended with a square extension. In 1955, the last extension with a flat roof and another staircase was implemented. This part was raised in 1968 and received a hipped roof.
The three-storey, three-axis front building of the first construction phase has a hipped roof . The facade of the neo-classical building is structured by a circumferential foot hip and colossal Ionic pilasters . The street facade is also characterized by a three-sided ground floor bay in the middle, a bat dormer and reliefs in the window parapets. On the east side, the entrance is arranged with a basket-arched volute roof on consoles , on the west side the company name was subsequently attached to a pilaster. The property is closed off by a striking pillar fence with Art Nouveau ornaments.
Company history
On August 20, 1862, master tailor Johann Elias Gottlob Schmidt founded the E. Schmidt company, Spitalgasse 14 zu Coburg. The company manufactured corsets in particular and was recognized for its products at the trade fair in Kassel in 1870 and the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 . Successors to Elias Schmidt, who died in 1893, were his son Eduard and his son-in-law, the merchant Leonardo Enders, from 1881, who separated in 1894. Leonardo Enders later ran the company as the L. Enders Corset Factory . Eduard Schmidt founded his own company with his son Gustav, which made a name for itself with innovations in corsetry production . In 1904 Gustav Schmidt followed in the company management. In 1914 he had a new factory building built on Rosenauer Strasse. Together with his wife Erna, Gustav Schmidt developed a large number of corselets and bust lifts and increased sales at Eduard Schmidt GmbH with the brand name Escora ( E duard S chmidt Co burg Ra ritäten) . The first extension in Rosenauer Strasse was built in 1938. In 1953 the sons Eduard and Hans-Egon Schmidt took over the management. Eduard (born February 1, 1905 in Coburg, † January 20, 1978 in Bamberg) was provisional district administrator in 1945 and president of the Coburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 1948 to 1970 . In the following decades Escora mainly produced swimwear and women's underwear. In the 1980s, increasing pressure on prices led to a decline in business. In 1994 the company went bankrupt. Monika Rieker, Austrian entrepreneur and owner of Rieker Karl Strickwaren GmbH, acquired Escora in 1995 and had corsetry produced in Coburg until 2002. The factory building stood empty from 1996 and was converted into an office building and medical center after being sold between 2009 and 2010.
literature
- Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg. Ensembles-Architectural Monuments-Archaeological Monuments . Monuments in Bavaria. Volume IV.48. Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X , p. 306
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Coburg Government Gazette , September 4, 1862
- ^ Bavarian Economic Archives, Munich
- ^ Coburger Zeitung, May 26, 1893
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 58 ″ N , 10 ° 58 ′ 13 ″ E